Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups (TM) is becoming real. Seriously real, not that it hasn’t been before but as long as the line is….it is now my business name and a website domain (almost…soon, being built as you read this). There is something a little bit like looking into the spaces in an infinity room I stood in. It was such a wonderful expanse to be in a darkened space with a few shining orbs looking into mirrors all around and above with water on the floor…..those few glowing orbs became infinite in number and the darkness multiplied to hold them. Touching the stars seemed possible because there in the space when I blew on an orb it swung and so did the whole of space with it. Looking forward and back and all around expanding beyond me, was nothing more than what was in that tiny room.

Well this serious, business space is kind of like that. it actually is that simple as I construct it but it can become so complicated to explain and so expansive to sit back and consider how it is multiplying before me. This space is going to have a new domain name and will include my colouring space over the next little while. My Sophist Garden began as simply a place to share my art and my life thoughts. It will still remain that but Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups is becoming the more than…..A picture in black and white became all of the potential it could be. I let other people colour the spaces and so now I am colouring them to. Colouring in my own spaces to find the perspectives that filling in the spaces creates.

There has been a lot of creation this past seven months: A book, Journey to Beautiful, was born into the market place. To birth the book required understanding the marketplace into which it is being placed which lead to Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups becoming something. It is hard to describe what it is. It is like when musicians get together and jam, the sound one makes becomes a part of something bigger than itself. It is like that when people gather to colour. The sharing of the experience with others adds to it….like standing in the infinity room and letting be what it was.

I make decisions in a considered but decisive way. Becoming and online colouring community space is to me the next step. I am considering new ways of sharing colouring experiences and the conversations that come out of them. This is an experiment in how we can coffee and colour in with grown ups who might be far outback or farther away…that there might be within the virtual space of the internet a place where we who understand what it is to be quiet within that leads to a quieter outside through just being in a colouring space can share that experience. So today I am meeting with a website builder (if I tried to do it on my own….it could take months more and not be what I would like it to be)….we ware going to construct a space of sharing and a marketplace for my art, my colouring pieces, my book and a sharing of how I come to create images and share them.

Somedays in this process I feel invincible others far from that. It is the difference between looking into the void to see what is reflected in the spaces of an infinity room or looking at its construction and the simple reality….

Somedays feel like I am walking in the stars and others trudging in sludge. I guess the thing that never changes is the fact that I carry this light that wants to shine as the light that it is. We all of us have one. Some people spend their whole life trying to define it with a word, I get to draw it and I have. Over and over I draw circles within circles and of late being held by the figure in the image. It made sense to me only a couple of weeks ago that it was my shorthand for life purpose, calling, vocation, the thing I am there for, destiny, life lesson, contract agreements…..whatever you call it, that thing that is my thing or your thing!

I am simply living it. Not really sure how to define it with words. I have tried a few times over the years, but now it doesn’t matter. If I simply do what feels and seems to be the right thing in the moment then I must be doing it. If the result of doing is that is leads to something good and right….then does it matter if it can’t be defined with words. I know it within and am following where it leads.

So watch this spaces as the changes unfold…support the journey by sharing the link and talking about the idea of Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups as a shared experience in the blogs and see where it leads you too….the potential is infinite, where it leads….lets find out….join me on my Journey to Beautiful somewhere and smile along the way!